Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

The Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, or 'SCIPSA', is a body created under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 to scrutinise the UK's Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. The committee's purposes are to approve the members of IPSA and to scrutinize and approve its estimate (or budget). The chair and members of IPSA are selected on an Address to the King from the House of Commons, but the names are chosen by the Speaker with the agreement of SCIPSA.

Composition

The committee comprises eight MPs and three lay members. The MPs are: the Speaker of the House of Commons (who also serves as its chair), the Leader of the House of Commons, the chair of the Standards and Privileges Select Committee, and five others appointed by the House of Commons who are not Ministers of the Crown. The Shadow Leader of the House has been appointed as one of the opposition members of the committee since its inception, but the act creating it does not specify she will be a member and does not assign a member to be nominated by the Leader of the Opposition as is done to provide that result with the House of Commons Commission.

Membership

The current members of SCIPSA, as of January 2022 are:

Member		Party	Constituency
	Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP	Speaker	Chorley
	Rt Hon Thangam Debbonaire MP	Labour	Bristol West
	Chris Bryant MP	Labour	Rhondda
	Marion Fellows MP	SNP	Motherwell and Wishaw
	Rt Hon Dame Jackie Doyle-Price MP	Conservative	Thurrock
	Rt Hon Sir Desmond Swayne MP	Conservative	New Forest West
	Sir Charles Walker MP	Conservative	Broxbourne
	Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP	Labour	Walsall South

The three lay members, are, as of January 2022 are Cindy Butts, Peter Blausten, and Theresa Middleton.

See also

• Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom

External links

• The Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority